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AN INNOCENT YOUNG THROAT-CUTTER  Gli Occhi Dentro - Tribute To Bruno Mattei  CASSETTE   (Nil By Mouth)   6.99
Gli Occhi Dentro - Tribute To Bruno Mattei IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Here's another punishing cassette for you insatiable HNW junkies, brought over from one of my new favorite power electronics/industrial noise labels Nil By Mouth. Fans of extreme harsh noise should be familiar with this long-running project, a duo featuring Texan noise artist Richard Ramirez (also of Werewolf Jerusalem/Black Leather Jesus) and Italian artist Cristiano Renzoni (from the HNW project Alo Girl) that has been producing hardcore noise walls on and off for almost two decades. Their love of obscure Euro-horror is the primary inspiration behind the project, and here they pay homage to the cult film Eyes Without A Face; not to be confused with George Franju's haunting 1960 French horror film of the same name, this is a 1994 giallo from legendary Italian sleazemaster Bruno Mattei that was also released as Madness. The film's stylized fedora-sporting murdered, scenes of graphic ocular disfigurement, and suspenseful stalking sequences fuel Gliocchi Dentro's sprawling, obsessive expanses of brutal static crush, filled with lots of textural detail across the tape's thirty-minute length. Each side features half of "Eyes Without A Face", the first primarily made up of a constant churning maelstrom of static, throbbing bass and metallic reverberations, with a patina of shortwave static clinging to the surface. After a while, though, the duo begins to introduce fragments of horrific distorted screaming and shrieking high-end feedback which add a fearful element to their raging noisewall. A few sparse samples from the film appear later as well, primarily as an intro to the b-side, but this track remains consistent in it's crushing, hypnotic HNW approach as well. As the second side approaches the end, the duo steadily increase the deep, low-end rumbling until it grows and builds into a vast oceanic roar, giving the final moments of the piece a dire atmosphere of inexorable doom. Fans of Ramirez's other harsh noise releases (and HNW work in particular) will love it, obviously, as will anyone into the more brutal end of the harsh wall spectrum.

Released in a limited edition of 120 copies, in a bright yellow package design that compliments the aesthetics of the giallo genre that these guys are so obsessed with.